iMac mid-2010

karlitob

Hi all

I’ve an iMac mid-2010. It’s really slow. (Maxed RAM a few years back) Haven’t used it much in the last few years as
I) use work laptop
Ii) iPhone
Iii) iPad.

Is there a way to make it faster, change the hard drive perhaps. Is it worth much to sell off.

Thanks.

JoyPad

Replacing the HDD with an SSD should help a lot.
I have a 2011 MacbookPro that I have upgraded with RAM and SSD and I still use for browsing, watching media, and such light activities.
However, mine has an i7 CPU which is probably twice as fast as your i3.

karlitob

JoyPad wrote: »

Replacing the HDD with an SSD should help a lot.
I have a 2011 MacbookPro that I have upgraded with RAM and SSD and I still use for browsing, watching media, and such light activities.
However, mine has an i7 CPU which is probably twice as fast as your i3.

Any recommendations for SSD?

Would it be worth much if I sold it?

Thanks for your time replying.

JoyPad

It will only take SATA SSDs, so you've not much choice anyway.
I would try something small and cheap, just to see if you can install OSX at all.
You should try to create an installation USB from your current version of OSX. Do not attempt to install the most recent one, as it will likely choke on that old CPU.

I don't know what it would be worth, if sold.

drunkmonkey

I'd sell it if you could get something for it, won't even update a an iphone anymore, apple killed them off via software.

karlitob

drunkmonkey wrote: »

I'd sell it if you could get something for it, won't even update a an iphone anymore, apple killed them off via software.

Good advice. Thank you.

Homelander

Swapping to an SSD would make it a lot faster, obviously a first gen i3 is pretty slow as well, but with 4GB of RAM and an SSD it should be still fine for casual use like web browsing, music, documents, etc.

It's worth doing as these days you will get a small 120GB SSD that's plenty for the operating system and document storage for €25.

karlitob

Homelander wrote: »

Swapping to an SSD would make it a lot faster, obviously a first gen i3 is pretty slow as well, but with 4GB of RAM and an SSD it should be still fine for casual use like web browsing, music, documents, etc.

It's worth doing as these days you will get a small 120GB SSD that's plenty for the operating system and document storage for €25.

It does seem too good to get rid of considering that I use my work laptop for most home stuff - documents etc (all on external hard drive and backed up).

But the iMac for purchasing, browsing and tv.

I have 350GB used - god knows with what. Would that inc the price a lot

Homelander

Not really, you can get a 500GB SSD for about £50.

350GB is a lot of space to have taken up if you are not sure what it is. That would be a lot of video/audio files. Which is fine of course, but make sure you need the space rather than it's cluttered up with all kinds of ancient stuff.

wandererz

I did this on a friends mac last year. Probably same age too.
Maxed out the RAM and inserted a SanDisk SSD, installed the latest OS at the time.

He was happy with the performance improvement.

The Nal

Wrap it in an air tight bag and chuck it in the attic for 10 years. Some Apple fanboy will pay a fortune for it then.